Column: That Texas anti-abortion law is so much worse than you thought. Here's how
As is widely known by now, the anti-abortion law that took effect in Texas last month set a new standard for malicious attacks on women’s reproductive health rights.
Whatever happens there, Pitman’s accounting of the law’s evils underscores the irresponsibility of corporate leaders with interests in Texas who have remained silent andHigh on the list of complicit business leaders is Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk, who announced this week that he would.
The law creates liability for anyone who “knowingly” aids or abets the performance of an abortion violating its terms. It doesn’t define aiding or abetting, though it does specify that paying for or reimbursing the costs of an abortion would qualify. In surprising development, UC Regents appear to have boxed in the Catholic Church on religious restrictions on healthcare restrictions at hospitals.
“By eliminating safe and legal options, they only force abortion care underground with potentially devastating consequences,” Melaney Linton, the head of the Houston-area Planned Parenthood unit,Pitman observed that the private lawsuit provisions of SB 8 were intentionally designed to block judicial review of the statute, a scheme that “clothes private individuals with the State’s enforcement power.
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